Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

A new law went into effect Jan. 1 that extends the buffer zone around endangered Southern Resident killer whales, punishable ...

Gray whales aren't a common sight, but this one-of-a-kind wildlife reserve allows visitors get up close and personal with the ...

Icelanders are at a point of reckoning – how to balance traditional practices with contemporary realities. Read more at ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

hoping to raise enough money to secure their own whaling boat to challenge Russian and Japanese whalers. In July of 1976, the association found success, chartering the same Greenpeace boat from ...